in today's video I'm gonna show you guys how to set up Adobe Illustrator when
designing a logo for your graphic design projects so follow along I learned how
to setup Illustrator perfect for logo designing welcome to today's quick
tutorial on how to set up illustrator for logo designing tomorrow have a
really cool tutorial on how to make a vector brushstroke typography so stay
tuned for that guys the first thing we need to do today obviously is to make a
new document in Illustrator give it a relevant name and then the size I like
to keep above 1000 pixels but seeing at the design is a vector this isn't gonna
be so important vector graphics how the quality scaled up or down to any size
unlike raster graphics ru CMYK is a color made for print and always 300 PPI
high-quality resolution you can adjust the amount of our boards you want to use
here and then click OK
so here at my 3r board in Illustrator 4 logo designing however we can take the
artboard tool here and we can actually move the artboards around on the screen
adding them where we want to feel most comfortable when designing a logo
also if you hold down the alt/option key you can duplicate the outboard and also
change the outboard name whilst using the auto tool we're going to further set
up the document for local designing illustrator so first press command or
control R to open up your rulers you can then control or right-click the rulers
themselves to change the measurements and I personally like to use millimeters
or pixels most of the time the first preference I make sure is activated for
local designing illustrator is a smart guide preference now you've all seen me
mentioned the smart guides a lot on this channel but they're really really
essential for a logo designing especially so I need to include them in
setting up a document for local designing illustrator so when I now
select the pencil and draw a shape or design illustrator will give me all
kinds of guides and notifications with my vector path is aligned centered and
spaced apart from other objects
this is super useful and being precise with your logo design projects
the next preference I change is the increment of a single nudge in Adobe
Illustrator so when I use the arrow keys to move an object left right up or down
this dictates how far it moves across the screen so this needs to be set up
relevant to the size of your document and the kind of design that you're
working with it's annoying when you're pushing an object and it moves too
little or too far along the screen the next part of my document set up for
local designing in this traitor is to make sure I have quick access to the
Pathfinder window Pathfinder tool is an essential part of most logo designs for
me and I like to have quick access to it and its functions you can find it in the
window drop down menu or you can find you add the toolbar at the side I like
to actually drag out from the toolbar itself and move it somewhere I can
access it easily another tool that I make sure is readily available is a
shape that at all which works in a similar fashion to the
Pathfinder tool by using shapes to make other shapes but kind of different if
that makes sense anyway
another preference that you might want to take notice of for your Lego stone
project is a user interface I always have mine set to a dark display because
I don't like the constant bright glare of a white background or my eyes you
might very well be spending multiple hours staring at the screen so do your
eyes a favor and darken the screen depending on the logo design you might
want to open up the grid which you can do here in the view drop-down menu this
again will help you to be precise in a geometric logo designs and other logo
design projects say for example drawing a square freehand in combination with
the smart guides is easily done lastly when logo designing if you already knew
the colors being used beforehand for your logo it's best to make sure that
you have Pantone selections of those colors you can use CMYK but I feel using
a Pantone color and telling the client of what that Pantone actually is able to
make absolutely 100% sure the clients logo is going to be printed the same on
any machine around the world sometimes a client even requests to me that the Reg
logo design is actually Pantone so with my color choices here I can select them
and then go up to edit edit colors and recolor artwork
then choose the color libraries and found the Pantone and coated colors
you then have changed the color to a Pantone color which will be evident in
the swatches window as what is in the color window with the patented ID will
be displayed
so there was today's video on how to set up the daily Ella straighter
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